Dorozhkina, Ekaterina (Katya)

Ms. Dorozhkina is an entrepreneur, economist, and investor in
startups. She is a published author of books, Forbes and other
magazines contributor, speaker.

She started her marketing career at Nielsen in 2003. After
Nielsen, she went on to work in pharmaceuticals, IT, FinTech and
Wall Street. Working in such a broad range of industries allowed
her to refine her product and business development skills.

In 2012, Katya co-founded her own agency and worked with
startups and corporate clients like Samsung, Casio, American
Express, American Airlines, and others.

In 2015, she joined Starta Capital VC fund as a Managing
Partner. Shortly after joining Starta, Katya co-founded Starta
Accelerator, a New York City-based program that aims to empower
startups with Eastern European roots and frontier technology.

By 2017, just two years after launching the accelerator, she had
gone on to back dozens of successful entrepreneurs and had begun to
add a further spate of services to the Starta brand.

In early 2017, Ms. Dorozhkina hatched the idea for what
would become Sputnik Space (http://www.sputnikspace.com),
an incubation and co-working space for all international founders,
which could then become a bridge to the Starta Accelerator for
successful startups.

In July 2017, together with CrossCoin, Starta raised $5M for the
fund through launching Starta Token ICO, with the purpose of
democratizing venture capital fundraising. These results catalyzed
the formation of Token Rockets, a two-step 'blockchainization'
process for startups, which culminates in an ICO. (http://www.tokenrockets.com)

In October 2017, all Starta initiatives came under the umbrella
of the Starta Ventures family. Starta Ventures' mission is to break
through traditional venture capital barriers to empower the next
generation of tech entrepreneurs.

Katya received her Master's Degree in International Economics
and is currently, a PhD candidate in Economics.

In her free time, she writes books for children and donates all
the royalties to charity fund.